GrowSave delivered their April Workshop on ' Practicalities of Dehumidification ' at the University of Lincoln . The event featured talk from industry experts Van Dijk Heating and DryGair as well as a guided tour of the Lincoln Institute for Agri - Food Technologies ( LIAT ) .
The talks started with Ton van Dijk from Van Dijk Heating speaking about their active ventilation system ( AVS ) and their operational ethos .
He outlined that within semi - shut greenhouses , the ventilation rate is in general direct for 80m3 / m2 / hr to keep humidness under control . AVS allows for this to be dilute to 5 - 25m3 / m2 / hr , hooked on additional factor .
Ton advert an AVS tool , developed by Van Dijk , which take into account the user to stimulant information and experience a climate visibility and suggested timing for humidness control .
The most effective solution is a combination of AVS with heat ticker , although this answer may not necessarily be the cheapest . A warmth money changer provide approximately 50 % saving , and the heat pump tighten input by another 10 % ; but the electrification of the organization present alteration and increase energy costs .
The next loudspeaker system was Justin Van Der Putten from DryGair , a fellowship that is currently exploring ways to further reduce emissions through the use of dissimilar refrigerant .
DryGair ’s presentation concenter on a specific covering : thin humidity overnight to avoid morning dew - percentage point condensation with the sunrise . Their inquiry into dehumidification is extensive and involve several typeface written report across various crops , include vegetables , flowers , herb , and cannabis .
Justin also spoke on their units designed for specific purposes , for example , a improbable model to fit between trays / track , which increase the suitability of DryGair ’s products across legion glasshouse designs .
Amir Badiee gave a presentation on Project GASTRO ’s research into the consequence of proprietary NIR pondering trash , both to keep heat in as necessitate and reduce solar gain , as 45 - 50 % of the heating plant input to a glasshouse is largely lost through the glass via heat emission .
The project aims to discover the result of equate the proprietary NIR reflective glass against stock glass in a newly designed glasshouse and determine whether the physical process , payoff , and calibre of the craw are desirable .
Simon Pearson spoke on the progress of robotics and contrived intelligence applied science at the University of Lincoln , exploring novel means of monitoring and harvest home a kind of crop .
The featured exercise of robotics trialled by the University of Lincoln were crop monitoring for high-pitched - speed revue of crop ontogenesis and quality , automatic selection and harvesting of mushrooms , and harvest home keep led by self - guide automaton subject of understanding human sign .
website TourCambridgeHOK led a guided term of enlistment of the glasshouse expression for Project GASTRO , consecrate attendees the chance to require about the construction outgrowth and the dispute between a inquiry - focused glasshouse and a commercial glasshouse .
The exterior of the glasshouse had been wind up which allowed attendees to comment the difference of opinion between the proprietary NIR reflective field glass and the stock glass , however there were still several calendar week of workplace to complete .
Simon Pearson continue the circuit around LIAT ’s enquiry facilities , stop at the Barclays Eagles Lab where attendant were precede to the various experts on fertiliser and robotic learning . There were stops at the labs where the robot were being developed and stored , and introductions were made to the Ph.D. students who were advancing each technology .
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